Zuck the Cuck says WhatsApp doesn't share user's location info with Facebook, but shares IP addresses.

Fucking trash.

Now I'm as much a friend of Faceboot as a Golden Shower qualifies as personal hygiene, but come on, of all the things in the universe, why bother with them collecting IP addresses?
IP addresses are like your car number plate. They're "shared" with each and every service you connect to. Your mail server, every web page you look at, devrant...
I rest my case. IP addresses aren't personal data. It's a pseudonym for your internet connection, not much more.
Everyone who ever saw your car anywhere knows your number plate, and yes, it can be used to follow you around to some extent, but it's pretty much useless on its own. That's why we put number plates on cars instead of, say, the owners actual name.

@ilPinguino as much as I kinda agree with you, to play the devil's advocate I'm gonna bring up the fact that it's communicating your ip address about everywhere you go. So it's a personal spy. It's a service on your phone, attached to you. Which is telling facebutt where you are at any given point in time. It's like your car calling the thief every minute and telling it your location every minute.

I say tho, we should make facebutt pay for our health insurance. If it wants to keep a tab on us, minimum it should pay to keep us alive.

It's their product and they can share it anywhere within Facebook, these things should be known before using them.

@NoMad like I said, it is a privacy nightmare. That just has nothing to do with IP addresses. I absolutely agree with you about the rest. Facebook needs to learn to respect their users privacy, or die trying, and I prefer the latter.

@theabbie For a person who just turned 19, you seem to have an opinion on everything.

Side-adventure:
Checked your bio. “pseudo-introvert”. Whatever the pseudo-fuck that means.

Nothing stopping people from quitting except their own gullibility.

@HiFiWiFiSciFi unless your contractor (and the senior most dev in that company) uses it as their "official" messaging application, and refuses to move. Infact, there's a manager somewhere in Ukraine who is preparing a pros-cons presentation for WhatsApp vs Slack vs Telegram for the last 3 fucking days.

Imagine if mark buys signal app

@Cyanide Grown-ups here rarely use their brains, so, it evens out.

@Cyanide Maybe you'd like for them to get off your lawn, while your at it?

Don’t forget, they read the messages too. Otherwise why would removing encryption from backups be one of the first things they did.

What's our alternative?

@eo2875 Apple or Signal or actual talking.

@eo2875 telegram and signal are the best contenders if you don’t want your messages used against you.

Today I was told that she is still working on that presentation.

Damn!

I think that it is not a secret for anyone that our messengers can listen to our calls and read messages, I never thought that this somehow negatively affects me, this information is unlikely to be distributed among our competitors or partners. But I also know that there are apps that help you keep track of messages, calls, and even the gallery on your phone. They can be used by your loved ones or intruders. On https://realspyapps.com/catch-a-che... there is more about such applications. This information made me happy, since such applications can help check my partner for fidelity and not feel deceived.

@MonikaM IDK, but what is the point of a relationship if there is not trust? If I find a "spy" app in my phone (installed by my partner) I would instantly break it off, even though I don't cheat.